# MP3 tag illegal language - V2.35a.

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-illegal-language-v2-35a/3298
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 9, 2006, 10:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-illegal-language-v2-35a/3298 "2006-05-09T10:27:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2006, 10:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-illegal-language-v2-35a/3298/1 "2006-05-09T10:27:21Z")

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I'm told (but have been unable to verify) that an interoperability failure between mp3tag and another program here is due to mp3tag putting all zeros in the comment tag language field. That's a failure to conform to the ID3 tag.

Is this true? Is there a workaround? Is there a fix?

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-illegal-language-v2-35a/3298/2 "2006-05-09T11:35:10Z")

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Which program?  
The latest dev. version writes eng as comment language.

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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-illegal-language-v2-35a/3298/3 "2006-05-09T14:04:22Z")

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> Which program?  
> The latest dev. version writes eng as comment language.
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So it does! That fix seems to have been made since 2.35a. Thanks.

BTW, any idea how the user may set the language?

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-illegal-language-v2-35a/3298/4 "2006-05-09T15:09:01Z")

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It can only be changed by adding an undocumented registry key. But that's also a gobal setting.

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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-illegal-language-v2-35a/3298/5 "2006-05-09T15:31:06Z")

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OK, thanks Dano.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3-tag-illegal-language-v2-35a/3298/6 "2026-02-09T12:19:44Z")

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